syrian rebels squeeze drew out of the foreign patrons in a diplomatic standoff with the media appointed u.s. secretary of state john kerry promising aid in return for just getting the. world powers play good cop bad cop with the wrong juggling sanctions and we waltz in a bit to coax the islamic republic into a bunting nuclear enrichment. grinding to hold the euro zone's fears of the deadlocked italian government could become reality with an election result pointing to hong kong i'm an. international news and comment live from moscow this is aussie with me hala hello and welcome to the program. now the u.s.

secretary of state's first assignment has seen him give in to pressure from they see where an opposition he pledged to more aid in return for the rebels agreeing to talk john kerry along with his british counterpart william hague has made concessions in order to drive the syrian national coalition to the friends of syria meeting the group's initially refused to go to the gathering of its global supporters accusing them of not doing enough to overthrow the assad regime and let's now believe western powers are being blackmailed by the group they helped create. way more aid so now they're coming and i think it's sort of outrageous that they just expect people to give them aid you know they want more they want when you thought it and i think they're really clamoring for that the united states is really bad luck funneling arms into conflicts everything from the soviet period in afghanistan to what happened when they attacked libya and gadhafi is arms ended up in my. i think it's better to get with this negotiating process

they had to bribe them to get together to do that i don't think they want any negotiations and i think they'll probably try to block at this point because i think they think they're wearing and when you're winning a war at least you think you're winning it i'm not saying they're really winning it but they're going to be intransigent and i want to see how it plays out on the battlefield. so the pledges that lead to the syrian rebels telling them that the secretary of state's visit to the u.k. stop on a diplomatic marson during his talks in london john kerry praised the war relations with britain although some politicians that doubt whether they bring anything positive tony blair formed a very close relationship with george bush took a straight into the war in afghanistan and later on accepted all those arguments bush used about iraq and britain was deeply committed in iraq and as a result we've been involved in two major wars we lost

a very large number of soldiers spent a vast amount of money and made the world an infinitely more insecure place we've also damaged civil liberties in our own country just as much as the united states has with its department of homeland security and all the controls that go with that and i think we need to examine the whole strategy of the west involving itself. then later libya and now syria to some extent and wonder if we're not really heading off in a completely wrong direction as if all this isn't enough a new adventure is broken out in north africa where britain and this time france involved in deploying to move forces all across the sahara now a lack of harmony relations between washington and moscow will provide the bond talk to john kerry's meeting with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov in berlin late on tuesday and those are scenes and so now reports they have a lot to talk about. conflict in syria miss out on defense and u.s.

expansion of projects in eastern europe plus iran and north korea's nuclear programs amid test and escalating rhetoric these issues have been on the table for years now let's take a closer look at some of them syria ripped apart by violence for two years now a militant opposition there trying to force out president also that russia from the beginning has pushed for a diplomatic solution and avoiding intervention at all costs while saying that time is limited moscow still believes negotiations are the way to go the u.s. has constantly called for asa to step down while supporting rebels despite them not being able to unify or willing to sit down for talks with asad a strictly one sided solution although recently the obama administration has taken a more distant tone on syria perhaps thanks to fallout from other arab spring countries like libya and egypt the nuclear ambitions of iran and north korea remain high on the agenda especially with north korea's recent underground test but again

while both russia and the u.s. condemn any unregulated nuclear steps or weaponization the two differ greatly on how to deal with them russia's against threats of more sanctions or further isolation while. saying military intervention it's not off the table especially in the case of iran in europe and u.s. plans to expand on missile defense systems and russia's concerns over its national security are considered the number one issue to have sidetracked a so-called reset but a shadow over bilateral relations is now russian children adopted by american parents the latest russian child to die might seem mean three years old only moscow was informed of the tragedy a month after month seems death his legs head and internal organs allegedly severely bruised maxime was adopted by a u.s. family from the same orphanage as dimitri yakovlev who died of heat stroke in two

thousand and eight after being left inside an overheated car yeah good lives name is now the title of a rush limbaugh that prohibits the adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens but critics say the law it's too harsh while supporters claim it's the only thing to be done until the u.s. can assure the safety of russian adoptees and adequate justice for violent crimes against children. and now that obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief faces his laces battle today and coming up later in the program or of course from where chuck hagel stuns after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. and also peace in mali doubles with african nations now demanding almost a billion dollars to maintain a force that france has its own plans for the region but is hells just a few miles. having tried the steak it will

reportedly be the current for iran today as well power's meet with tehran nuclear representatives in kazakhstan according to sources these that make republic will even be offered a laptop also actions that is a of tehran shuts down a fortified nuclear site buried in a moment and also of its enrichment activities in return according to reports sanctions on the trade in gold and precious metals could be lifted the measures along with an oil involve go have put tremendous pressure on iran but as a notion reports now they've also prepared the ground for some of the country's exports. the international ban on iranian oil cost the country around forty billion dollars in two thousand and twelve according to the u. but despite this huge gap in iran's income officials have some good news indeed harsh sanctions normal experts have increased by at least thirty percent from ego. what may look like a bird may actually play a positive role we've been asking our government for many years to decrease

dependence on oil to at least fifty percent it was too high up around eighty percent making our economy too vulnerable some say today is a historical opportunity to finally get rid of this dangerous oil dependence and iran actually has a lot of alternative resources to feed from from well known copperheads to dade's via minerals and stones but wanting this tree in particular appears to be thriving these days. iran's famous be stuck shows have been going through tough times in the last couple of years heavy frosts and terrible droughts have been damaging large parts of the harvest but this year with the country under tough economic sanctions the stoushes are doing better than ever. our currency rio fell by almost forty percent in october but i sell both at home and abroad and i benefited from price rises i saw a three hundred percent increase in profits comparing over the previous year. you read in the stuff shows that exported to more than one hundred countries worldwide

but even if farmers cannot send in the broad they're confident business who remain great every iranian can consume two kilograms per day exactly that much our country produces so we'll be ok we can eat our own nuts ourselves thousands of industry workers also benefit which has them overcome the country's highest ever inflation. the amount of production and price of affect our salaries every year the add ten to twenty percent to my salary these i have some bonus to my daily payments. but producers seem to be more protected than exporters while international sanctions don't get the food industry current measures affect the banking system making financial transactions a hard nut to crack. sanctions don't affect pistachios or two but we have problems with getting our money back and thought that it takes more time and effort but this

is the reality they also penalize the banks that. are not in us and europe maybe in china or south america they penalize them for dealing with us to the mean that's the main problem which is actually illegal internationally iranian producers say a good stash here is a smiling one is shall should be have opened the now the add a good to stash here is the one that manages to earn some cash for its country if oil is a black gold the discussion is must be a green one at least for iran locals say these small knots have great how benefits especially for the man well to the country it also gives strength iran's biggest mall expert has always been a significant source of revenue and as the latest round of sanctions poshest ever bites it's also something iran may have to rely on even more than before or even

ocean r.t. from iran. the african peacekeeping force to be based in mali will cause donor nations twice the previous estimate according to ivory coast foreign minister the price has risen to almost a billion dollars and science could be planning to keep us on a rapid reaction force in west africa after its military operation that ends a move that will only further destabilize the region lawrence freeman had all the african desk at executive intelligence review magazine. what's going to happen now is that you can see a reliance on special forces from the french of the us so additional support it's going to come from the united states and probably wasn't from great britain and the african troops are going to be then left with the task of actually carrying out the a limited rooting out the jihad is to extremists and this is going to be very coarsely so france will stay there as a expected in various ways u.s. and britain will stay there and expand their operations and the african soldiers

are going to be the ones we're going to be dying carrying out this attack on the islam system and this is all not going to lead to any positive solution north africa the section where the hell they're all going to be. allies these countries as a result of this policy and that's exactly what tony blair announced on february third he said north africa is where we're going to be for the next generation. bradley manning faces pretrial hearings that the whistleblower they supported by outside a small white states' rights to one thousand days that would potentially which they say is an old. fashioned way are not wealth that is in fact utah and employment benefits lead to generations giving up on going to what because it's more lucrative to take government hunt out that i'd want to offset those short quite.

well. financed technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world

has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations rule the day. this is our see life from moscow welcome back the results of the time election are on the knife edge as the last votes counted now and displayed that slimmest of margins center left comes that been sorry has been declared winner of the lower house but silly about this county's party has asked for more time for the last ones to be tied a majority in both houses of parliament is needed to govern but the result for the upper house remains to close just because you and political analyst ruffo name says struggling italians feel let down by that point to sions people who need to be out of state in measures which had not produced the structural reforms of the society

in order to have a trustable future for those who are already working and for those who are blind to the workforce. of promises which have not been fulfilled the center left the is. getting what it was already. in the balls elections but certainly many people are wondering why they didn't make the reforms in the previous their stations where they had the majority so the situation is very chaotic at the moment it is not certain that the government can be forged if not a coalition government involved in almost all the major political forces that are present in the pound. does not lose ground trump near the cross because of the hunger in parliament the kinds of report turns its attention to the fixing of interest rates that's coming up next on. in this case there were thousands of

e-mails between thousands of traders or actually a few dozen traders saying set the libel rate at a rate that is not true for me and they're saying that this is somehow complicated that we can't do anything about it because there are signs of innocence outside this circle of the actual writers of any sort out being committed somewhere in the universe should we apply a standard of guilt to this admission of guilt by a just peace yet i just recently admitted that there are a lot of money and finance and generous but somebody somewhere there is a back something in a parallel universe perhaps so can we call it just. let me give you say oh oh oh wow first three thousand mexicans are headless because you got to go very good i just created a better start but should we care because after all somebody made it is it actually somewhere so you're not guilty. punches and fuel standoff a government speak for secretary of defense is to be voted on today chuck hagel

drew the ire of republicans from the outset largely due to a number of unorthodox tone says the luckless to performance at his initial confirmation hearing didn't help either he's going to have to track down explains. a number of republican senators including john mccain say chuck hagel is not qualified for the job but they indicate that they're going to allow the full senate to vote because what happened ten days ago was that the senators voted to postpone the vote and to continue the debate so it's all likely that they're going to keep stalling the vote over chuck hagel is confirmation and he will be confirmed there's no doubt about that the votes are there but the humiliation that he had to grow through during these last few months sent a message all by itself right now chuck hagel is this repenting figure who keeps apologizing for the positions he had taken before for the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and other foreign policy views that he had expressed as

a senator the congress effectively showed their readiness to destroy anyone who would allow themselves to descend from washington's core foreign policy belief so despite all the apologizing that mr hague old has done one senator said he almost had tears in his eyes as he apologized for his earlier statement about the israeli about the influence of these really a lobby so despite all the repentance chuck hagel has still been under attack at some point the conservative media got so carried away that they misinterpreted someone's joke about chuck hagel as association with a group of friends of hamas and they were in such a rush to break this story that they failed to check whether the group even exists and it doesn't so chuck hagel has been under attack not just for his previous statements but also for what he had never said and done. so the next defense secretary will have to deal with one notorious company long accused of manipulating the relationship with the government to get out of trouble part of his contract of

a cause me the new name of blackhole to escape with little more than a slap on the wrist of a new arms smuggling scandal and michael o'brien and also the book called america's failure in the wrong things it's essentially immune to prosecution. they're just follow on charges after the the debacle at mr square in baghdad september of two thousand and seven. course that was where the seventeen iraqis were were killed you can say they were you know murdered needlessly killed whatever the case may be these are follow on charges that were. pushed against blackwater course that that's the old name the company technically doesn't exist that way they can you know technically legally sever the relationship it seems like it was. the that a deal was struck with the prosecution they dropped the charges three people were just to walk to the charges were reduced to five thousand dollars for i'm slap on the wrist i think it also there's house arrest for four months so. and the other

thing too is they they claim that they were buying these weapons for the cia and the cia said we don't know what they're talking about and the thing about it is who knows i mean maybe they were but it seems to me that the cia has ways of. getting their own weapons ivied it just doesn't make a lot of sense and the cia just if they if it was true the cia left them hanging. eleven people dead millions of barrels of oil poured into the sea and three years on from the environmental catastrophe b.p. is going to court on charges of gross negligence and find out just how much the energy john could be forced to shell out and dunnage is on our web page. and he is to good health go to alter dot com for the details on the new law signed by president putin the times to save the lungs of the nation.

britain's unemployment benefits and to provide a safety net for anyone between looking for the next career opportunity only because some of the payouts are so attractive getting out of bed to go to work doesn't seem worth it all he's part of my car explains i couldn't really believe my luck to be on the story when it was just a dream i thought this was amusing you know british government is helping me out so you know i needed somewhere to live and i don't have a job not the words you expect to hear from someone who's fallen on hard times housing benefits allowed stephanie to rent a flat in this boarded block in london's glitzy mayfair by myself i could always

barely afford a studio in central london when i was working and. looking for a job and so intro in the spacious flat it just makes you really lazy it's a sprawling and complicated system but one that allows a family of four to claim up to thirty five thousand pounds a year from housing to child care and unemployment benefits i've known people on benefits and they've been able to afford new cars. that the been able to afford to go abroad on holiday i've never actually been abroad on holiday before in my life so how on earth can they afford a good holiday when they're on benefits and i'm workin in our congress ford to do that. that's what makes me angry. is the growth and growth before well for a start. there's no. but for a certain segment of society we basically have communities imbedded in well for

generations of people who have not worked the welfare state was all the idea of a man who might well be turning in his grave william beverages an idea of the five giant evils of society squalor ignorance won't idleness and disease some of the very qualities that critics say the system encourages beverage was arctic wealth should only provide you with subsistence levels of support and it should only do so for a short period of top seventy years down the line and welfare spending is the biggest item of government expenditure milking it is so widespread it's become a source of satire you know ever we're told here we've been on this disability allowance i told he worked at docklands. do you think you can get me on is just ability allowance he's got

a bone to see which call. westminster now wants to make it clear that benefit on to a career path and coming through the doors of your local job center a year in and year out filling in a few forms and claiming your money is no longer an option but for people that have been through the experience of claiming unemployment benefit they see it's all too easy to get no money and no one's really checking whether or not you're genuinely looking for work. artsy london. so let's check now what else is happening around the world police say a rocket fired from gaza has caused damage in the south of israel there were no injuries reported following what was the first time since know them. it follows violent clashes between palestinian protesters and israeli security forces following the death of a prisoner in detention. in somalia supported by an african union mission has stepped up an offensive against the bases and dealings with rebel

groups so they plan to secure more key towns having already seized sixty took positions in the past ten days the operation against the al-shabaab militia started way back in october twentieth. u.s. army private bradley manning is about to face a new round of pretrial hearings mining faces a number of charges for allegedly holding classified data to the wicked makes website the most serious is using the enemy which could land him behind bars for life ronnie's have been held in over seven to six as across the world to mark one thousand days of his attention and attend a cabinet sees explains why and many believe his treatment is unlawful. judge to recognize in the motion to dismiss for the solitary confinement manning was treated improperly and did take one hundred days off were obvious whatever sentence of any he ends up with so the judge has recognized the government and went to bars that's a positive it is and i hope that the judge will recognize that delaying this trial

where they have is enough reason to dismiss the case there's a certain point all of the government's out. and the outrageous government conduct me recognizing the reason it is used to smear is especially she should not have served in one of the if you will of ford you've got to first look back and recognize when the crimes were committed and hold people accountable who did it and unfortunately president obama did not do that and he's only was a war that you know he's used the espionage act more than every other president combined it's a disgrace it's a nontransparent administration is ever to stop people from going forward reporting crime to the united states and its activities abroad. now stay with us for breaking the set which is the next.

there's an old urban legend that says that the u.s. army stopped using circular targets for rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot people on the battlefield the logic is that if you practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized about killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is practiced shooting at what you want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not hesitating the law enforcement targets incorporated has created a special line of paper targets for police called new more hesitation so it's on these targets well maybe mexican drug cartel members or l.a. street gangs nope children and pregnant women yeah law enforcement targets in coffers a product to desensitize police from hesitating to blow away women carrying the unborn and innocent children and it's even sicker than that but law enforcement agencies are probably buying these things up by the thousands but that's just my opinion.